Jefferson Hack

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Jefferson Winston Hack (born 20th June 1971 in Montevideo, Uruguay) co- founded the monthly magazine Dazed & Confused with photographer Rankin in 1992 which became the mouthpiece for the early 90s explosion of talent in British music, art, fashion and film pioneering a new editorial approach combining contemporary art projects with social issue based fashion photography and groundbreaking interviews with international creatives and avant garde personalities such as the two- way interviews, between Irving Welsh and Iggy Pop, Paul Auster and Lou Reed and the self interview with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke interviewing himself. Early cover stars profiled by Hack included Bjork, Harmony Korine and David Bowie who contributed to the magazine over the years.

In 2001 Dazed Group launched the luxury bi-annual Another Magazine and in 2005 Another Man was added to the group with Hack as Editor- in- Chief of both. Recently he has interviewed Madonna for Dazed & Confused, Patti Smith, Mia Farrow and Julie Christie for Another Magazine and Hugh Hefner for Another Man.

Dazed & Confused has also supported social causes and encouraged debate with issues such as its 1998 Fashion-Able issue (#46), which challenged perceptions of beauty and disability. In 2004 Dazed & Confused published the South Africa issue (#115) focusing on the progress of the country ten years after apartheid and the AIDS crisis throughout Africa. In 2006 Dazed & Confused joined forces with MySpace to support RED and World AIDS Day by encouraging the public to submit artwork and pledge their support to join the (RED) initiative. In conjunction with this project, Hack guest edited the Independent Newspaper on World Aids Day.

In 1999 Hack and Rankin founded Dazed Film & TV, a production company that would produce the first mast-head television broadcast ever, the four hour special Renegade TV Gets Dazed, for Channel 4.

In November 2006 Dazed launched a new web-based strand of the magazine titled DazedDigital.com, an ideas sharing network that delivers fashion, film, music and art news and special online events.

Hack also contributes a fortnightly column for the Telegraph entitled Delusions of Grandeur reporting on men’s style. He has appeared on Vanity Fair’s best-dressed list and sits as a judge on the panel for the Paris ANDAM fashion award. He was recently in a Gap commercial with Belgium model and fiancée Anouck Lepere and in Converse’s Centenary campaign alongside twentieth century icons including Hunter S Thompson, Karen O and Ian Curtis. He has a five-year-old daughter Lila Grace with model Kate Moss.